Summary:
It is, there is a well-laid-out process and the forest department is in charge of it. “There are two factors that are being ignored by the forest department. But very few plantation drives have taken place within a 5km radius of the areas where trees were cut. On paper, the government ensures compensatory plantation. Still, these norms, he reveals, are being “completely ignored” by the forest department when permission to divert land for non-forest activities is given..